Begging your pardon, Dave, but this is begging the question. How about
_answering_ it?
Candice
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> Candice
>
> Scotland and Ireland: James Kelman, Paul Muldoon, Brian Friel, Irving Walsh,
> Edwin Morgan, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochead, Alison
> Flett, Derek Mahon, Tom Paulin, John Banville, Alisdair Gray and Alisdair
> Gray and Alisdair Gray. And more and more.
>
> And Wales?
>
>
> david
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 6:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Wales
>
>
>> David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>> <But any honest response to Welsh culture today has to compare it with
> that
>> of Scotland or Ireland now and I'm afraid the comparison is not
> favourable.>
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> And what would be "honest" about a response that compared Welsh culture
> with
>> those of two other countries with two different native languages, neither
> of
>> which is Welsh?
>>
>> With all due respect, David, the only possible basis for a comparison
> among
>> Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (the South, presumably) is the perspective of
>> the has-been colonial power common to the histories of all three--a
> vantage
>> point you might be said to occupy geographically, but which hardly seems
>> consistent with the stances you usually take here politically.
>>
>> So, what gives? I wonder, after having followed this exchange between you
>> and Matthew for the last couple of days, if it hasn't really moved beyond
>> the issue of useage (i.e., "provincial").
>>
>> Bemusedly,
>>
>> Candice
>
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